Arranging the music of one song...

analoq's just gotten more and more dangerous with each passing ReMix. Leave him alone for awhile, and he comes up with something different, creative, quality, and highly indicative of both an arsenal of tools and more importantly the skillz to put them to good use. This Doom ReMix is an instant classic, easily one of the best from the series that I've ever heard, and features some truly varied, inspired processing, Rammstein-esque vocals, and a bassline that drives the whole thing and is the business. It's a very good thing when a bassline is the business, and this one is. Layered, filtered synths, electronic drums, and gated guitar hits fill everything out, and there's also more than one breakdown and the PERFECT ending, a mellow, maudlin chorus of fuzzy synth strings. Though it was unanimously approved by the panel, there was some amusing dialogue regarding the "lyrics":

Vigilante: as far as i can tell, the last three lines are: Dracula, kumbaya, rastaman.analoq: the words are from the 'infernal names' section of the lavey satanic bible. sort of a demonic roll call. it seemed appropriate for doom. i'm probably pronouncing some of them wrong but they're just for effect anyways...

I could have sworn I heard "kumbaya" and "rastaman", too, so perhaps Jesse shouldn't feel too bad. At any rate, the effect works as intended, and the mix has that futuristic-satanic dichotomy balanced just right. Great mix, and the title is even cool because it's like "onik" instead of "onic" and stuff, and we all know that's the business, too. Highly recommended.

The thing that would be of far more interest to me if you still
have the original is a FLAC (or equivalent) copy of this. That
would be completely fantastic.
Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease? Absolutely love the track
(although most D/A converters make the opening a bit harsh)!

Kidding of course, I don't mind in the slightest. In fact I would
be happy to provide you guys with an instrumental mix of this,
however after 10 years, and I can hardly believe it's been that
long, the project files have no doubt collected a prohibitive
amount of cobweb; I wouldn't have the hours necessary to sort it
out and bounce anything.

Aww man, I wish those lyrics weren't there--or rather, I almost
wish that I just hadn't found out about them (as of today). This
has always been one of my very favorite OCR classic tracks--super
catchy arrangement, chewy drums, nice phat synths. Don't
reeeeeally wanna be blastin' a demonic roll call, though.

It does indeed sound very much like NIN. I mention this because
this song just came up on shuffle on my mp3 player today, and now
it's on my "I should make a mashup out of this song" list. Watch
this space!

(Also, yes, it is in fact quite a great remix. But you already
knew that.)

Super oldschool Nine Inch Nails feel to this, which i'm certain
has been mentioned about 9001 times already in this very review
thread. Very cool sounds, and i'd totally fight some demons named
kumbaya and rastaman.

A lot of synths sound like acids going through chemical
reactions: fizzy, bubbly, and carbonated, releasing gaseous
by-products in the interim. It's like I'm witnessing a chemistry
experiment in hell/on Mars, where Marine flesh gets devoured by
the poisonous waters not unlike sugar getting raped by sulfuric
acid. Other effects are equally curious, like the
tone-and-volume-guided gatings starting at 0:31 or the hyper RPMs
during the 8-bit break. And for some reason - I don't know why -
some of the muted synths make me picture black wings or a black
cape flapping ominously, particularly during the demonic roll
calls and after the brief silence halfway through.

It's definitely sly, intimidating, and darkly transmogrifying
like an incubus.

Still, a good example of that the judges do not mess with
taste, because otherwise this could not have passed:
technically there is nothing wrong with it, but I also see no
reason besides nostalgia why one would want to hear this.

There's no way this would have been passed just because it's
"competent." Just because you personally didn't enjoy it,
don't extrapolate that to how djpretzel or the
staff viewed the mix. You'd be absolutely wrong.

sounds like an old nine inch nails sound study with added spoken
demon evocations. Do not expect something that in any way
resembles Rammstein, as has been stated before. The whole thing
is bland, at times feels detached through pointlessness. Still, a
good example of that the judges do not mess with taste, because
otherwise this could not have passed: technically there is
nothing wrong with it, but I also see no reason besides nostalgia
why one would want to hear this.

Did you put that extremely harsh and annoying screeching sound at
the start of demonik electronik just to get on peoples nerves?
now i'm not talking **** or anything but I like that song I alot
but I'm afraid to double click it because of that sound. I have
to fast foward it everytime. _

Well I am a huge fan of industrial music, (like enough to name
off a bunch of obscure bands no-one has heard of as my
favorites.... Hocico, Wumpscut, Kevorkian Death Cycle...) so um,
I know what Rammstein sounds like, I always wanted to get back
and say, "yuh-huh, it does too sound like Rammstein, anyone who
has heard alot of Rammstein knows it does!!!"

Thanks for backing me up.

Anyways... yeah, everytime I hear it, I still think Rammstein,
and I still think it plays really well, and still sounds great,
and everytime I hear it I get an itch to get back to these forums
and post "yuh huh!!"... now that itch has been scratched...

I've glanced once in awhile at this Remix, but never got down to
actually listening to it. But when I did, man what a great Remix
it is! It fits in perfectly with Doom's mood and just well..its a
really good version of that theme!!

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